The reason you can't understand the jive-talk is because the actors who were playing those roles thought the original jive written in the script was too easily understood. They intentionally made it very hard to pick up on what they were saying, lol. And the white woman who spoke jive was best know for playing June Cleaver in one of the most wholesome sitcoms of the early days of TV. To have her not only speak jive but to rudely clap back at the two dudes was such a shock.
That's not exactly true. I know that the phrase, "Cut me some slack Jack" means don't be so hard on me or give me a break. When one says, "That honkey be messin' with my old lady, got to be runnin' cold upside his head" translates to "That white man fooling around with my wife doesn't know what trouble he's getting into" , when one says, "I dug her rap" translates to "I understand what she said" "Legga down a smack em' yack em'."
I saw it in the theater when it came out (old fart I guess). So those in my age bracket would have instantly recognized ''America's Mom'', sweet, and very white. Yep, shocking...and hilarious. At the time I even recognized Howard Jarvis in the cab. If you knew his story that weird cameo was also hilarious. That's some pretty smart comedy disguised as a goofy dumb movie. The casting was brilliant but I get that the memory of many of the actors is fading: Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem... Fortunately there's so much there it still holds up today.
Thank you for sharing that with me. I understand most of the references, but not the background on all of them. Blazing Saddles is another outrageous and wonderful film written, produced and acted in by Mel Brooks. Also full of references and a mockery of racism and prejudices of all kinds. Mel Brooks also wrote and produced a very successful Broadway production called "Springtime for Hitler". No kidding. And there is a scene up on stage of a big chorus line of Waffen SS officers dancing to the music of "Springtime for Hitler, music and lyrics. Hysterically funny and offensive only to whose who do not pick up on the references.
This wasn't just the greatest parody movie of its time, it's arguably the greatest parody movie of all time. There are a *ton* of references, but the great thing about it is that it's funny even if you don't know what they are. This also launched Leslie Nielsen's career in comedy. Before this, he was known for dramatic roles, but he was so dead on that it led to Police Squad! and the Naked Gun movies, which he also made with the writers/directors of this movie.
I was coming in to say the exact same thing. Best parody ever, especially because it understood that parody works best when played completely straight.
Such a strong parody that the creators actually *bought* the rights to the original 1950s Disaster movie that it most closely parodies 😀 (Edit: I had to check, the original film was "Zero Hour" - Airplane! was effectively the first "parody" movie, a concept that is now well established)
One of the best parts of that scene the best I think is it just shows that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar actually had a sense of humor and could laugh at himself due to the fact he let the kid give the speech about his dad calling him a slacker on defense Etc most of what the kid said were actually legit things people were saying about Kareem. I get the whole point of him having the name Roger Murdock for those "Roger" ... "huh.?" Jokes.. Personally I think it would have been an absolutely hilarious one if he responded to the kid saying he was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with " No kid, you must be mistaking me for somebody else my name is Lew Alcindor, and I'm a pilot ... "
A great film - the unfortunate part is allot of the jokes and parodies are from the 1960’s and 1970’s so younger reactors won’t have context. The disco dance scene is from “Saturday Night Fever” (1977), John Travolta’s iconic dance drama - often considered synonymous with 1970’s culture. The lady who said “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” is from a 1970’s tv commercial for Yuban ground coffee. Another topical reference was to ex-president Jerold Ford (who had an undeserved reputation as being not too bright). The scene where Leslie Nielsen inspires Ted to land the plane and “win one for the zipper” (while rousing college band music plays) is from a famous scene from the film “Knute Rockne All American” (1940) about a famous Norte Dame football player and coach. The early scene where Ted and Elaine are embracing on the beach in the surf is taken from “From Here to Eternity” (1953) another iconic scene from a steamy romance for its time.
Knute Rockne All American starred Ronald Reagan, that is, 40 years before this. In 1980 at the time of the movie filming, Ronald Reagan was running for President. "Win one for the gipper," was I guess, about George Gipp rather than George Zipp. And they play the Notre Dame fight song a couple times.
The battling PA announcers in the beginning were a married couple who actually did the PA announcing at LAX and voices were recognizable by frequent travelers to and from Los Angeles.
The reason "Knute Rockne All American" was referenced was Ronald Reagan played the part of George Gipp(an actual player for Notre Dame. He was the team captain, and was nicknamed "The Gipper". Unfortunately Gipp died while still in school. And in the movie Knute Rockne before a big game against Army told his team to "Win one for the Gipper" while George was on his deathbed). Reagan was running for President in 1980, and was all over the news.
The white lady speaking jive is the mother from an old TV show called *(leave it to Beaver)* who is the most straight lace woman in the world which makes that scene even more funny
This movie was about a 60 percent shot for shot parody of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. It also combined parodies of scenes from other movies, TV shows and commercials. Being born in the 90s you were bound to miss those jokes. But it was also filled with sight gags and puns that you should get. It also took several actors that had been known to always play serious roles and trolled their previous performances. It was created by the Zucker Brothers which followed this up with the Naked Gun series.
lots of details everywhere, and even when knowing more movies and other things, it takes several rewatches to get most (still not all) of them. btw: the title of this movie is "Airplane!" while the other movie's title is "Zero Hour!" (both with a "!")
A joke that you probably missed was in the psych ward. It was a common trope for a shell shock soldier to think they were Ethel Merman, a famous singer at the time. In the scene here the soldier who thinks he is Ethel Merman is played by Ethel Merman.
I caught and laughed at that joke my first time watching, despite never having heard of Ethel Merman, seen what she looked like or knowing what she was famous for :D It just logically followed in a movie like this, when someone says that a man recovering in the same hospital room thinks he's ~insert female name~ and then the camera goes to an actual woman, getting out of a hospital bed as she's singing and being brought back to bed by doctors. The only way that would be a joke, was if Ethel Merman was a singer and it was really her portraying the shell-shocked soldier, lol.
The airports were full of people begging for donations to churches and charities before they tightened security in 2001. They could get really annoying. The Hare Krishna's in Los Angeles would dance at sing. The violence was cathartic for a lot of people.
It was well before 2001. In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled that airports could ban solicitation for funds after years of lawsuits by the Hare Krishnas. In fact, I haven't seen religious solicitation since the late 80s... probably the last people I ever saw soliciting was the nutty Lyndon LaRouche followers at Minneapolis Airport.
There were a lot of catastrophe dramas during that time, one being the movie Zero Hour. This movie spoofs "Zero Hour" so closely (almost frame by frame), that before they released it, the producers bought the rights to "Zero Hour". Check out a great UA-cam video showing some scenes of the two movies side by side. ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html Airplane was the first of the "spoof movie" genre. It's essentially the father of every spoof movie ever done. And it is still one of the funniest just by your reaction to it! It also gave dramatic actors an entry into comedy. Nobody took advantage of that like Leslie Nielson, who despite showing up way after the movie had started, stole the show and went on to have a fantastic career doing comedy and spoofs.
This is an old spoof movie, which means it's a parody to even older movies, so no shame if you missed something. For the dancefloor scene, yes, Ted got it from this film, and this film got it from Saturday Night Fever.
The subtitles for the Jive Bros. is so great because when they say “shiiiiiiiiitttt”, the subtitle says “GOLLY.” I frequently watch and quote this movie and I’m 46.
5 years before the actual movie, there was a food poisoning outbreak on a plane due to contaminated omelets. Fortunately, the pilots hadn’t eaten them and were able to make an emergency landing. By luck, their biological clocks were still on Alaska time and they had ordered steak dinners.
Airplane/Zucker Brothers was the forefront of the absurd parody genre that continued into Scary Movie, and Not Another Teen Movie types. Airplane was sending up a lot of disaster movies, commercials very prominent at the time, and at the time the leads were VERY serious actors that used this to transition into comedy.
If you don't watch this movie DOZENS of times, you'll MISS something. Most people miss things like the fact that you hear PROPELLER ENGINES on a jet. SO many subtle jokes you miss if you only watch this one time!!
That's because you have to take into consideration the age of the reactor. Youngsters in this generation have never flown a prop plane, so they would not even pick up on that. They also don't pick up the fact that we are looking at a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
I’m 50 y/o, this is one of the earliest movies I remember my parents laughing hysterically at. I only understood some of it, but as I got older and saw more movies, it gets funnier. As an old man now, I appreciate it more than ever. Even though this movie parodied older movies, there are plenty of movies that parodied this one.
I'm 55 and saw it in the theater. Had and have the same reaction you do. As a young boy the absurdity was enough, now that I'm older, the references are more meaningful.
The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a reference to a common coffee commercial from the 1970s. The extra layer of the joke is that the woman who plays that role in the Airplane movie is the same actress who was in that coffee commercial. I'm not 100% certain if it was the same guy though. Maybe someone else can confirm. ua-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/v-deo.html
When this movie came out in theaters my parents took us to see it. It was so funny that My grandparents took us the very next day to see it again. Saturday night fever was the first rated R movie I saw in the theater. I believe I was 12. How times have changed. Sure miss the good old days. I sure miss the way movies were made and the way they made you feel. Today’s movies have no feeling and hardly plots at all. Believe me I would go back to 1985 in a heartbeat. Love and prayers
12:52 so, that woman who says "Jim never vomits at home", she was in some TV ads back then, and the reason I remember this even though I was born in 1978 is that they were still playing these ads like ten years later....Jim drinks a certain brand of coffee and asks for another cup, and she says to herself "Jim never has a 2nd cup at home", so as to suggest that this brand tastes good. lol 🙂
I prefer if a reactor comes into a movie knowing nothing except the genre. Some movies, it’s important to know that it’s a comedy or whatnot or else you miss out on the first part of the story trying to figure it out. Loved your reaction and looking forward to checking out more from you!
Almost nobody catches the end credit scene with the guy still sitting in the cab. The guy was some kind of politician in California who got the proposition on property taxes passed, I think.
Not only that, but the plane starts off with the soldier waving goodbye to his girl is done like a train. First a guy dressed like a railroad conductor who checks his pocket watch. The pilot pulls back on a throttle and the plane starts chugging faster and faster. And people could and did lean out of open coach doors for one last goodbye and the train pulls away from the station platform.
Also when Elaine throws Ted during the dance sequence if you look real close under the neon blue star light on the wall you can see Robert Hays crouching down waiting to switch places with his stunt double.
@@zcdat True. Mostly because these younger reactors have never flown on a prop airline to know what a turbo jet should sound like and it's really not a hilarious to even point out. No one also ever mentions that what we see is a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
The Zucker Brothers who made this (the ground crew at the beginning. Their mother was the "Make up" Lady) also made: Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 & 2, Top Secret and were the inspirations for a generation of parody movies all the way up to The Scream Movies. They also made "The Kentucky Fried Movie" several years BEFORE This as their first movie,
Kentucky Fried Movie would require a LOT of editing. Its basically soft porn, for today's standards. Top Secret spoofed early Elvis movies, and early spy movies. Also, one thing to note. This was rated PG at the time. Yeah....exactly
13:09 This REALLY freaked me out when I was a kid. Lady has one egg in her mouth that never comes out. Leslie Nielsen has very tight fingers, magician's fingers. I have skinny fingers and big knuckles so you can see between them. I could never do sleight of hand. Nielsen palms each egg under the heel of his thumb and raises it in front of the lady's mouth and blocks the view with his whole hand. Your brain tells you what should be happening, that you can't see, so you just observe what you expect to see. What really does happen is that Nielsen uses the tip of his thumb to push the egg back into her mouth while he curls his fingers around the egg in his palm, which he then reveals. He puts the egg down and then picks up another egg from just offscreen and does it, again. The tiny bird is in the cup which has thin paper taped over it. When he breaks the egg, it is an empty shell, and he pushes it through the paper, releasing the tiny bird. It was a PERFECT coincidence that he watched as the bird happened to fly back through the shot, and is hilarious. Special effects, Baby! Movies is MAGIC!
The lady that is speaking jive is Barbara Billingsley who played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, which made her speaking jive all the funnier. The actor walking Ted thru landing the plane is Robert Stack, He hosted a long running program called "Unsolved Mysteries" and much of his dialogue here mimics how he would deliver it on that show. This movie was hilarious when it came out. Yes, you'll miss a lot of the references, but there is still enough comedy to keep you laughing even if you don't know a lot of the references.
I saw in an interview, She didn't tell her family that she was in this movie, so when her teenage grandson went to go see it with friends and she popped up, he apparently stood up in the theater and yelled (in shock) thats my Grandma.
The creepy questions from the pilot start with "Have you ever seen a grown man naked"? to set the tone. Gladiator movies...reference to a deleted scene from the original theatrical release of the movie Spartacus which was thought to be referencing homosexuality. Gymnasiums was probably because of the Village People's song YMCA. The group was named for Greenwich Village a large gay community in Manhattan and dressed in stereotypical costumes representing macho gay personas. Turkish prison is referencing a movie Midnight Express. A movie adapted about an American guy who was arrested for drug smuggling in Turkey. One scene depicts a male guard raping the prisoner. Guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis. A face for the California Prop 13 which reduced property taxes and was known for not wanting politicians to waste money.
No one has ever picked up on the Anita Bryant joke that Dr. Rumack says right after admitting he ate Lasagna, which was not even on the menu. He was comparing the mass sickness that most of the passengers got from eating fish to Anita Bryant who was famous for being a very outspoken anti-gay activist and her songs were not well received back then.
to list every pop culture reference in this movie would require to write a book. the dance scene was from "saturday night fever." the beach/seaweed scene was from "from here to eternity." the mention of the "turkish prison" was a reference to "midnight express." the "win one for the zipper" was from "Knute Rockne, All American." in the movie there's a famous line "win one for the gipper." and the music behind the comment was the notre dame college football theme that was also in that movie. and there's 100 more references on top of those. the egg scene was a common magician's trick, the original egg never leaves the lady's mouth. nielson uses slight of hand to make it appear he's removing different eggs from her mouth. the whole movie was practically a shot-by-shot remake of the 1957 low budget disaster film "zero hour." with jokes and sight gags added. the directors bought the rights to "zero hour" to keep from being sued.
FYI the dance scene originally came from "Saturday night fever. This movie launched Leslie Nielson's comedy career you definitely have to watch the naked gun series with Leslie. Imo,I prefer when reactors go in completely blind. This movie is funny even if you don't know any of the other films it referenced I only knew one. Great reaction keep up the good work ✌️.
This was back when PG actually meant that parental guidance was needed. I still remember talking about how movies have changed with my sister's fiancé. He understood Jaws being PG, but he could not believe that this film was as well.
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Julie Hagerty. Celebrity Pilot Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. Better Living Through Chemistry Fact: At one point, a woman (Nora Meerbaum) refuses alcohol in favor of sniffing cocaine. Although seemingly righteous and indigent at being offered alcohol, she is correct in refusing a depressant (whiskey) if she was going to take a stimulant (cocaine). White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Notes Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
Bridges during filming also became frustrated because he did not understand the humor and what exactly was going on. Robert Stack told him "They just want us to be us" and he got it.
An amazing movie. Yes, there are a HUGE number of things people now just miss...like the cameos of JJ Walker and Ethyl Merman, and Jarvis (in the taxi), like the Folgers commercial (same woman who did the commercial parodying the lines here), etc. etc. etc. Some reactors don't even get that that is really Kareem Abdul Jabar playing Kareem pretending to be Murdoch. But despite the fact half the jokes are dated, it still makes people laugh.
The plot of the movie is mainly based on, and spoofing a really old move called Zero Hour! But there was also a movie called Airport in the 70s that had 2 sequels that I think also inspired some of this. The beach scene was a spoof of a scene from a really old movie called From Here to Eternity. The dance scene was a spoof of the John Travolta movie, Saturday Night Fever. The guy who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by the real Ethel Merman. She was a very famous Broadway star (the song she sang in that scene was from the Broadway musical, Gypsy that she also starred in), but she's also famous for doing a few movies. The nun with the guitar was a spoof of several singing nun movies from the 60s which were in turn inspired by an actual singing nun who recorded a song in France. The woman who kept thinking, "Jim never does that at home" was a spoof of a coffee commercial from that time where they would switch the coffee served in fancy restaurants with instant coffee and the wife was always shocked that her husband loved their coffee more than hers. The horse in the bed was probably partly what you thought, but mainly it was a spoof of a scene from the Godfather when a rival gang member puts a decapitated horse's head in another character's bed as a warning. I think the line, "That's just what they'd be expecting" was just a spoof of many old war movies where the hero would say that about the enemy. Same with the random spear thrown in the background; that was a spoof of a lot of old jungle movies where that would happen. That's all I can think of.
All of those observations would not be noticed by anyone born in the 90's and later. Just not part of their culture or our culture today. Those are all examples reflecting 60s and 70s pop culture. For clarity, I read in an article years ago that the actual horse in bed scene was not a spoof of the Godfather but an inside joke that Mrs. Over is cheating on her husband with a horse.
Well, sure, that was clearly what was happening, she was cheating on her husband with a horse, and the absurdity of that made it funny even for those who didn't get the Godfather reference. For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, there were only 4 networks, and all the UHF channels showed old movies (for free) so there was a greater likelihood that most of us would have seen all the classic movies as well as all the commercials and top TV shows, so we had more of a shaired culture so we got most of the references. Now with streaming TV and thousands of cable channels, there's no guarantee anyone will get any references anymore@@dunhill1
The movie was a take-off on the airplane crash movie genre in the 70's, but more specifically a scene by scene parody of the movie "Zero Hour" which was much older. There were also timely jokes about commercials of the day (Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home) and (Leon's getting larger). And the dance sequence was from Saturday Night Fever, which is worth watching, but only one scene is related to this movie. Other than zero hour, which probably isn't worth your time, there is nothing else specific you should watch in order to get more of this. Although you should know that really was Ethel Merman, a Broadway star of the 40's-60's.
Leslie Nielsen's second movie was a Science Fiction Classic called Forbidden Planet. He was the young Captain that leads a group of space travelers to an unusual planet with a very unusual "monster." It's a serious film although there are some funny scenes. It introduced Robbie the Robot who ended up being the robot on the old Lost in Space television show in the 60's. For it's time it was a very well done science fiction movie. (Have to admit it was one of my husband's favorite sci-fi movies.) You don't necessarily need to watch this for your channel but you may be interested in watching it to see Leslie Nielsen in a serious role but you might find the mystery of the "monster" to be interesting.
they stopped visits to the cock pit I think even years before 911. security protocols and airline regulations have changed so much from the 70s that I'm stoked when younger people catch the jokes... it took me twenty years but I finally got the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" its an old coffee commercial. where the wife (same actress) is at a party with her husband. he's offered a second cup of coffee where he accepts prompting that thought from her. turns out he only ever had one cup of coffee at home because the coffee she made wasn't that great and he was being polite. I think the dancing scene came from Saterday Night Fever.
"Airplane!" isn't just the top comedy of the time period that it came out in, it has been on top of best comedy lists ever since. Sure, some jokes are dated but so many of the gags don't require knowledge of the references because they are so surprising and outlandish. I think this film is pretty damn timeless. A bona fide classic. I highly recommend watching "Top Secret!" - it's made by the same directors and is their hidden gem IMO. Val Kilmer's first big movie role, and he kills it. The jokes are just as unexpected and "smart dumb" as in this film, but some of them are even more absurd. It's so so good.
The "No, that's just they'll be expecting us to do" was used several times by this same actor when he starred in a show called The Untouchables which is from the '60s You should check out Top Secret! that came from the same folks that did this one.. If you think this is random you haven't seen anything yet.
12:50 The lady thinking her husband "never has a second cup of coffee at home" is from a famous series of coffee commercials in the 70s! I love your reaction to this film...same as mine the first time I saw it.
I love that the copilot was Kareem Abdul Jabar. He keeps denying that he is a world-famous basketball player. Also, the guy who keeps pouring liquid on his face instead of in his mouth, is demonstrating what he called his "drinking problem".
Robert Stack "Captain Rex Kramer" was the host of "Unsolved Mysteries" during the 1980's and 1990's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a huge star in the NBA around the time this was made.
In the 80s you couldn’t walk through any airport without having at least 3 groups of those people handing out scripture pamphlets and little fake flowers! As a little girl I actually loved getting the flowers and I ended up with a huge collection of them! The groups I mostly remember was the church of the Latter Day Saints and the jehovah witness
There is no way in the world they would allow anyone to make this movie today, NO WAY! I’m not gonna lie, I miss this time, all the off the wall jokes. They weren’t trying to be mean towards anyone. The humor was so much more “free”. I’m not saying no one was offended, but not like now. There was no one expressing how offended they were, threatening cancellation of anyone. This is a totally different world we live in now. Sometimes I wish I could go back. Oh well, life goes on! 🤷🏾♂️
BS. They said that about Blazing Saddles for decades, then they made Tropic Thunder. There have always been offended people, and always been comedians pushing the envelope. Life of Brian had people so offended they actually banned it in some places, and that came out around the same time as Airplane!
13:06 - the woman producing eggs out of her mouth....a pretty common sleight of hand trick. She actually only has the one egg in her mouth. When he takes the egg out of her mouth, he actually already has a new egg hidden in his hand and she just keeps the same egg in her mouth. Then he grabs a new egg which he hides in his hand and the whole process repeats.
the horse in the bed thing is a Godfather reference. In the movie, the mob puts the head of a horse in some guy's bed to scare him, but in Airplane! They made the joke so that it's not only a horse head, but the whole horse who was ... well you got the rest
This film succeeds by the actor playing it straight while the jokes occur in the background. To fully get every pop culture joke you have to have been alive in the late 70s/early 80s in the US.
The scene in Ted was a parody of this dance scene but this dance scene was a parody of Saturday night fever! This was the funniest thing ever when I was a kid! You should definitely do the naked gun! Deadpan humor at its finest!!
22:10 "Was this the greatest parody movie of this time period?" The was the GREATEST PARODY MOVIE TO THIS POINT IN HISTORY. All other parody movies after this one are based upon 90% of this movie's DNA. This is the Seminal Modern Parody movie.
24:45 This is a parody of the Knute Rockney All American speech. The speech was a real event, but what people remember it from mainly is the Ronald Reagan movie: ua-cam.com/video/_e7rmpjBSR8/v-deo.html This movie scene is presented as the historical background for the historically stirring locker room speech that evoked the unforgettable phrase: Win One for the Gipper. This phrase became a campaign slogan for Ronald Reagan for his reelection (a high point in US politics, in my humble opinion).
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a TV commercial at the time. The Stayin Alive dance scene is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The song is from that Travolta film.
My spoof recommendations, pretty much the ZAZ guys, who made this: Kentucky Fried Movie (especially the second half), Police Squad, Top Secret, Naked Gun, Hot Shots Part Deux and then Walk Hard (not a ZAZ movie, but excellent).
The slapstick over-the-top comedy of this era is timeless. There’s so many subtle and clever joke’s happening so quickly. It makes it great to rewatch and catch some of the jokes you missed the first time watching
This movie was legendary. June Cleaver speaking jive - that one kills me even to this day. I am serious and don’t call me Shirley….I still say that. I still laugh when I see it after 40 years! So many double entendres, it was quite genius for the time.
"Go out there and give just one for zipper" is a speech done in a 1940s film All American: by Knute Rockne. Another place this speech is used, is the movie RUDY ( as both are central around Notre Dame Fighting Irish) they just used it as a generic heart felt motivational speech in Airplane. but its reference to All American.
The white lady who translated the jive was Barbara Billingsley, the Mom from the 1950s sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." That show was kind of considered very white bread, that's why Barbara delivering those lines was so funny! Leave it to Beaver is a great show! Lots of fun, lite 50s comedy. Very charming, funny, and relaxing.
After some research, only Peacock Premium has Leave It To Beaver. I doubt our gracious reactor is going to subscribe and watch an old outdated, unrelatable, sitcom when he has so much on his plate. For this generation, Leave It To Beaver is boring and they can't even relate to the antiquated technology and vernacular used. Just not going to happen. And having to explain it doesn't make the gag any funnier.
The contemporary references in this movie are not nearly as specific as you think. It's a general spoof of disaster movies (many of which have been roasted by MST3K) and TV shows that were a major fad in the 1970s. "Airplane!" is a play on the title "Airport," which I think was a brief series in the mid-70s. The disco scene - although the "Disco Sucks" era had begun, "Saturday Night Fever" had left its huge mark on pop culture. Oh, yeah, that really is Ethel Merman - a singer who entertained enlistees in WW2. The copilot is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. I remember watching his retirement honors in 1989 while we were on vacation in Kiawaii Island - just before his team lost the Finals to the Pistons. "I haven't felt this sick since we saw that Ronald Reagan film." Former Hollywood star Ronald Reagan was a presidential candidate at the time of production. His nickname was The Gipper when he was young and I guess he coined the phrase, "Win one for the Gipper" during WW2.
Just found your channel...great reaction! I think it's a testament to this film that it still holds up despite some dated jokes. The real joke for many of us was watching these actors we grew up with in serious roles totally spoofing themselves.
One of the gags that is usually missed is that they are flying a jet, but throughout the movie, the sound you hear is from a prop plane. This is a throwback to the original source movie, “Zero Hour”.
16:53 - the reason they said that in sync was because he said "It's an entirely different kind of flying, alltogether". Back in the day when someone ends a sentence with "alltogether" it was meant to say or sing something in unison. Even though that's clearly not what Ted meant. You have to remember a lot of these jokes were puns based on 1970's slang and expressions.
One part of the movie almost nobody gets is the one where Ted decides he will land the plane and you can hear the audience cheering and clapping. My dad told me that back in the 40s and 50s there was this type of generic movie where there was a hero that past the first half of the movie would feel beaten and defeated and would give up. Then, close to the end, he would re-gain self-confidence somehow and would decide he would face the villain. At that point, audiences from back then would cheer and clap for real in the theater.
The dancing in this as a reference from Saturday night fever and the dance scene in Ted is a reference to this one in airplane. The watermelon had nothing to do with race...
Fun Fact: the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” was actually a commercial back in the day! (My dad told me this, he grew up in the 80’s) P.S. You should watch the Naked Gun movies, they star Leslie Nielsen!
FYI: Bar scene from "Saturday Night Fever". Ted's "drinking problem" was that he missed his mouth. Second coffee was a coffee commercial with the same actress who asked her friend what brand her husband had liked better than hers. Pep talk was a reference to Knute Rockne movie from 1940 inspiring Notre Dame with "Win one for the Gipper" (Starring Ronald Reagan ----- Republican candidate for President that year). Johnny was a gay caricature. Light reading = Great Jewish sports legends ----an old joke because there aren't many. Other scenes were from "Airport" --- a series of more serious movies during the 70s. Most of the main characters were serious actors who later branched out into more comedy (Leslie Nielson, Lloyd Bridges) after this movie. 26 was entering the high side for women getting married back then. Leslie Neilson died about a dozen years ago.
The reason you can't understand the jive-talk is because the actors who were playing those roles thought the original jive written in the script was too easily understood. They intentionally made it very hard to pick up on what they were saying, lol. And the white woman who spoke jive was best know for playing June Cleaver in one of the most wholesome sitcoms of the early days of TV. To have her not only speak jive but to rudely clap back at the two dudes was such a shock.
That's not exactly true. I know that the phrase, "Cut me some slack Jack" means don't be so hard on me or give me a break. When one says, "That honkey be messin' with my old lady, got to be runnin' cold upside his head" translates to "That white man fooling around with my wife doesn't know what trouble he's getting into" , when one says, "I dug her rap" translates to "I understand what she said" "Legga down a smack em' yack em'."
June Cleaver was the whitest woman in the history of Television LMAO
I saw it in the theater when it came out (old fart I guess). So those in my age bracket would have instantly recognized ''America's Mom'', sweet, and very white. Yep, shocking...and hilarious.
At the time I even recognized Howard Jarvis in the cab. If you knew his story that weird cameo was also hilarious.
That's some pretty smart comedy disguised as a goofy dumb movie. The casting was brilliant but I get that the memory of many of the actors is fading: Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem...
Fortunately there's so much there it still holds up today.
People miss that when the two gentlemen order dinner they aren't speaking "jive", but short order cook slang.
Thank you for sharing that with me. I understand most of the references, but not the background on all of them. Blazing Saddles is another outrageous and wonderful film written, produced and acted in by Mel Brooks. Also full of references and a mockery of racism and prejudices of all kinds. Mel Brooks also wrote and produced a very successful Broadway production called "Springtime for Hitler". No kidding. And there is a scene up on stage of a big chorus line of Waffen SS officers dancing to the music of "Springtime for Hitler, music and lyrics. Hysterically funny and offensive only to whose who do not pick up on the references.
The dancing scene spoofs "Saturday Night Fever", John Travolta's big 70s break.
This wasn't just the greatest parody movie of its time, it's arguably the greatest parody movie of all time. There are a *ton* of references, but the great thing about it is that it's funny even if you don't know what they are.
This also launched Leslie Nielsen's career in comedy. Before this, he was known for dramatic roles, but he was so dead on that it led to Police Squad! and the Naked Gun movies, which he also made with the writers/directors of this movie.
I was coming in to say the exact same thing. Best parody ever, especially because it understood that parody works best when played completely straight.
This is THE movie of it's time in cinema. Almost every other parody movie following this one is 90% drawing on this one.
@@GeraldWalls And generally missing the point.
Such a strong parody that the creators actually *bought* the rights to the original 1950s Disaster movie that it most closely parodies 😀 (Edit: I had to check, the original film was "Zero Hour" - Airplane! was effectively the first "parody" movie, a concept that is now well established)
Plus in the late 70s there were a slew of disaster movies…. So it’s also a parody of the movies of the time.
"Don't be so naive, Arthur." Kareem getting visibly annoyed when Joey recognizes him is low-key one of my favorite scenes in this whole movie.
One of the best parts of that scene the best I think is it just shows that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar actually had a sense of humor and could laugh at himself due to the fact he let the kid give the speech about his dad calling him a slacker on defense Etc most of what the kid said were actually legit things people were saying about Kareem.
I get the whole point of him having the name Roger Murdock for those "Roger" ... "huh.?" Jokes.. Personally I think it would have been an absolutely hilarious one if he responded to the kid saying he was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with " No kid, you must be mistaking me for somebody else my name is Lew Alcindor, and I'm a pilot ... "
@@RobwLPOC His cameo was also basically spoofing the trend in the 1970s of professional athletes trying to become movie stars.
@@patrickflanagan3762 This film is a direct spoof of Zero Hour where football player Elroy Hirsch played a co-pilot.
A great film - the unfortunate part is allot of the jokes and parodies are from the 1960’s and 1970’s so younger reactors won’t have context. The disco dance scene is from “Saturday Night Fever” (1977), John Travolta’s iconic dance drama - often considered synonymous with 1970’s culture. The lady who said “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” is from a 1970’s tv commercial for Yuban ground coffee. Another topical reference was to ex-president Jerold Ford (who had an undeserved reputation as being not too bright). The scene where Leslie Nielsen inspires Ted to land the plane and “win one for the zipper” (while rousing college band music plays) is from a famous scene from the film “Knute Rockne All American” (1940) about a famous Norte Dame football player and coach. The early scene where Ted and Elaine are embracing on the beach in the surf is taken from “From Here to Eternity” (1953) another iconic scene from a steamy romance for its time.
Knute Rockne All American starred Ronald Reagan, that is, 40 years before this. In 1980 at the time of the movie filming, Ronald Reagan was running for President. "Win one for the gipper," was I guess, about George Gipp rather than George Zipp. And they play the Notre Dame fight song a couple times.
The second cup of coffee joke was uttered by the actual lady in the commercial being parodied.
The battling PA announcers in the beginning were a married couple who actually did the PA announcing at LAX and voices were recognizable by frequent travelers to and from Los Angeles.
Gerald
The reason "Knute Rockne All American" was referenced was Ronald Reagan played the part of George Gipp(an actual player for Notre Dame. He was the team captain, and was nicknamed "The Gipper". Unfortunately Gipp died while still in school. And in the movie Knute Rockne before a big game against Army told his team to "Win one for the Gipper" while George was on his deathbed).
Reagan was running for President in 1980, and was all over the news.
The white lady speaking jive is the mother from an old TV show called *(leave it to Beaver)* who is the most straight lace woman in the world which makes that scene even more funny
That would be Barbara.
"Why say that in sync, together?"
Me-"it's an entirely different type of flying. Altogether." Really LOOK at that sentence.
This movie was about a 60 percent shot for shot parody of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. It also combined parodies of scenes from other movies, TV shows and commercials. Being born in the 90s you were bound to miss those jokes. But it was also filled with sight gags and puns that you should get. It also took several actors that had been known to always play serious roles and trolled their previous performances. It was created by the Zucker Brothers which followed this up with the Naked Gun series.
lots of details everywhere, and even when knowing more movies and other things, it takes several rewatches to get most (still not all) of them.
btw: the title of this movie is "Airplane!" while the other movie's title is "Zero Hour!" (both with a "!")
A joke that you probably missed was in the psych ward. It was a common trope for a shell shock soldier to think they were Ethel Merman, a famous singer at the time. In the scene here the soldier who thinks he is Ethel Merman is played by Ethel Merman.
I caught and laughed at that joke my first time watching, despite never having heard of Ethel Merman, seen what she looked like or knowing what she was famous for :D It just logically followed in a movie like this, when someone says that a man recovering in the same hospital room thinks he's ~insert female name~ and then the camera goes to an actual woman, getting out of a hospital bed as she's singing and being brought back to bed by doctors. The only way that would be a joke, was if Ethel Merman was a singer and it was really her portraying the shell-shocked soldier, lol.
The airports were full of people begging for donations to churches and charities before they tightened security in 2001. They could get really annoying. The Hare Krishna's in Los Angeles would dance at sing. The violence was cathartic for a lot of people.
I remember that in the theater when Stryker punches one of the religious nuts in the face the audience didn't laugh at it but cheered and applauded
It was well before 2001. In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled that airports could ban solicitation for funds after years of lawsuits by the Hare Krishnas. In fact, I haven't seen religious solicitation since the late 80s... probably the last people I ever saw soliciting was the nutty Lyndon LaRouche followers at Minneapolis Airport.
Blazing Saddle’s is an absolute must! We need to get back to laughing at each other and knowing we are all the same ❤
Indeed 🙏🏼
@@mrflickswatchesThen after Blazing Saddles. You must react to Robin Hood: Men in Tights. (Made by the same director.)
There were a lot of catastrophe dramas during that time, one being the movie Zero Hour. This movie spoofs "Zero Hour" so closely (almost frame by frame), that before they released it, the producers bought the rights to "Zero Hour". Check out a great UA-cam video showing some scenes of the two movies side by side. ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html
Airplane was the first of the "spoof movie" genre. It's essentially the father of every spoof movie ever done. And it is still one of the funniest just by your reaction to it! It also gave dramatic actors an entry into comedy. Nobody took advantage of that like Leslie Nielson, who despite showing up way after the movie had started, stole the show and went on to have a fantastic career doing comedy and spoofs.
Absolutely essential to watch to see how they matched it scene for scene.
This is an old spoof movie, which means it's a parody to even older movies, so no shame if you missed something. For the dancefloor scene, yes, Ted got it from this film, and this film got it from Saturday Night Fever.
The Jive Lady is Barbara Billingsly, June Cleaver of "Leave it to Beaver" one of the most famous TV Mom's Ever.
The last person we would expect, but she was hip to the jive.
Ya'll should try to find the interview where she talks about it
The subtitles for the Jive Bros. is so great because when they say “shiiiiiiiiitttt”, the subtitle says “GOLLY.” I frequently watch and quote this movie and I’m 46.
oh golly
5 years before the actual movie, there was a food poisoning outbreak on a plane due to contaminated omelets. Fortunately, the pilots hadn’t eaten them and were able to make an emergency landing. By luck, their biological clocks were still on Alaska time and they had ordered steak dinners.
Blind reactions are very much preferred. This is the very first of its kind and the over the top humor still has people laughing today. Timeless.
Airplane/Zucker Brothers was the forefront of the absurd parody genre that continued into Scary Movie, and Not Another Teen Movie types. Airplane was sending up a lot of disaster movies, commercials very prominent at the time, and at the time the leads were VERY serious actors that used this to transition into comedy.
If you don't watch this movie DOZENS of times, you'll MISS something.
Most people miss things like the fact that you hear PROPELLER ENGINES on a jet. SO many subtle jokes you miss if you only watch this one time!!
That's because you have to take into consideration the age of the reactor. Youngsters in this generation have never flown a prop plane, so they would not even pick up on that. They also don't pick up the fact that we are looking at a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
I've seen it several times and only now did I notice the woman throwing her baby when the plane goes through the window. 2:05
You missed the scene after the credits. And READ the credits. Among other things, they got in trouble for ending the FBI warning with "So there."
I’m 50 y/o, this is one of the earliest movies I remember my parents laughing hysterically at. I only understood some of it, but as I got older and saw more movies, it gets funnier. As an old man now, I appreciate it more than ever. Even though this movie parodied older movies, there are plenty of movies that parodied this one.
I'm 55 and saw it in the theater. Had and have the same reaction you do. As a young boy the absurdity was enough, now that I'm older, the references are more meaningful.
The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a reference to a common coffee commercial from the 1970s. The extra layer of the joke is that the woman who plays that role in the Airplane movie is the same actress who was in that coffee commercial. I'm not 100% certain if it was the same guy though. Maybe someone else can confirm. ua-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/v-deo.html
The "extra", extra layer is that the producers didn't know they had hired the same actress.
My parents didn't know.
Thought it was an Airport movie.
Saw it when I was 12.
When this movie came out in theaters my parents took us to see it. It was so funny that My grandparents took us the very next day to see it again. Saturday night fever was the first rated R movie I saw in the theater. I believe I was 12. How times have changed. Sure miss the good old days. I sure miss the way movies were made and the way they made you feel. Today’s movies have no feeling and hardly plots at all. Believe me I would go back to 1985 in a heartbeat. Love and prayers
So would I. Despite the fact that I was born in 1989 and wouldn't even exist yet. Still might choose it, lol.
The wife who said Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home was a very popular TV commercial at the time
Saturday Night Fever is the move that dance came from.
12:52 so, that woman who says "Jim never vomits at home", she was in some TV ads back then, and the reason I remember this even though I was born in 1978 is that they were still playing these ads like ten years later....Jim drinks a certain brand of coffee and asks for another cup, and she says to herself "Jim never has a 2nd cup at home", so as to suggest that this brand tastes good. lol 🙂
Kids were given cough syrup on the plane back in the day to shut them up. And it was glorious.
Leslie Nelson is basically the godfather of these 80s and 90s slapstick movies
my aunt owns the house Leslie lived in until he was about 4 years old in Regina Canada 🙂
I prefer if a reactor comes into a movie knowing nothing except the genre. Some movies, it’s important to know that it’s a comedy or whatnot or else you miss out on the first part of the story trying to figure it out.
Loved your reaction and looking forward to checking out more from you!
Almost nobody catches the end credit scene with the guy still sitting in the cab. The guy was some kind of politician in California who got the proposition on property taxes passed, I think.
There are so many things people miss no matter what. For example did you notice the airplane was making a propeller engine sound, not a jet engine.
I've seen a lot of reactions to this movie, but I can't recall anyone ever noticed the propeller sound 😅
Not only that, but the plane starts off with the soldier waving goodbye to his girl is done like a train. First a guy dressed like a railroad conductor who checks his pocket watch. The pilot pulls back on a throttle and the plane starts chugging faster and faster. And people could and did lean out of open coach doors for one last goodbye and the train pulls away from the station platform.
Also when Elaine throws Ted during the dance sequence if you look real close under the neon blue star light on the wall you can see Robert Hays crouching down waiting to switch places with his stunt double.
@@zcdat True. Mostly because these younger reactors have never flown on a prop airline to know what a turbo jet should sound like and it's really not a hilarious to even point out. No one also ever mentions that what we see is a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
Plus the gear shifter on the floor to get the plane rolling.
The Zucker Brothers who made this (the ground crew at the beginning. Their mother was the "Make up" Lady) also made: Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 & 2, Top Secret and were the inspirations for a generation of parody movies all the way up to The Scream Movies. They also made "The Kentucky Fried Movie" several years BEFORE This as their first movie,
Kentucky Fried Movie would require a LOT of editing. Its basically soft porn, for today's standards. Top Secret spoofed early Elvis movies, and early spy movies.
Also, one thing to note. This was rated PG at the time. Yeah....exactly
If you're a Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul fan, you'll recognize Jonathan Banks (Mike Ermentraut) at the radio "about 2 more minutes, chief!"
13:09 This REALLY freaked me out when I was a kid.
Lady has one egg in her mouth that never comes out.
Leslie Nielsen has very tight fingers, magician's fingers.
I have skinny fingers and big knuckles so you can see between them. I could never do sleight of hand.
Nielsen palms each egg under the heel of his thumb and raises it in front of the lady's mouth and blocks the view with his whole hand.
Your brain tells you what should be happening, that you can't see, so you just observe what you expect to see.
What really does happen is that Nielsen uses the tip of his thumb to push the egg back into her mouth while he curls his fingers around the egg in his palm, which he then reveals.
He puts the egg down and then picks up another egg from just offscreen and does it, again.
The tiny bird is in the cup which has thin paper taped over it.
When he breaks the egg, it is an empty shell, and he pushes it through the paper, releasing the tiny bird.
It was a PERFECT coincidence that he watched as the bird happened to fly back through the shot, and is hilarious.
Special effects, Baby!
Movies is MAGIC!
"Naked Gun" is a must after this. "Saturday Night Fever" is an experience you need as well.
The reason the drinks kept missing his mouth is cuz he had a "Serious Drinking Problem" like an alcoholic. lol, that one always cracks me up
It’s made funnier by repeating the joke when you least expect it 😂
the amount of time it took you to process that mayo clinic joke was perfection lol
The lady that is speaking jive is Barbara Billingsley who played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, which made her speaking jive all the funnier. The actor walking Ted thru landing the plane is Robert Stack, He hosted a long running program called "Unsolved Mysteries" and much of his dialogue here mimics how he would deliver it on that show. This movie was hilarious when it came out. Yes, you'll miss a lot of the references, but there is still enough comedy to keep you laughing even if you don't know a lot of the references.
I saw in an interview, She didn't tell her family that she was in this movie, so when her teenage grandson went to go see it with friends and she popped up, he apparently stood up in the theater and yelled (in shock) thats my Grandma.
The creepy questions from the pilot start with "Have you ever seen a grown man naked"? to set the tone.
Gladiator movies...reference to a deleted scene from the original theatrical release of the movie Spartacus which was thought to be referencing homosexuality.
Gymnasiums was probably because of the Village People's song YMCA. The group was named for Greenwich Village a large gay community in Manhattan and dressed in stereotypical costumes representing macho gay personas.
Turkish prison is referencing a movie Midnight Express. A movie adapted about an American guy who was arrested for drug smuggling in Turkey. One scene depicts a male guard raping the prisoner.
Guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis. A face for the California Prop 13 which reduced property taxes and was known for not wanting politicians to waste money.
No one has ever picked up on the Anita Bryant joke that Dr. Rumack says right after admitting he ate Lasagna, which was not even on the menu. He was comparing the mass sickness that most of the passengers got from eating fish to Anita Bryant who was famous for being a very outspoken anti-gay activist and her songs were not well received back then.
Leslie Nielsen is the actor you recognize he was in naked gun. He died in 2010. RIP.
to list every pop culture reference in this movie would require to write a book. the dance scene was from "saturday night fever." the beach/seaweed scene was from "from here to eternity." the mention of the "turkish prison" was a reference to "midnight express." the "win one for the zipper" was from "Knute Rockne, All American." in the movie there's a famous line "win one for the gipper." and the music behind the comment was the notre dame college football theme that was also in that movie. and there's 100 more references on top of those.
the egg scene was a common magician's trick, the original egg never leaves the lady's mouth. nielson uses slight of hand to make it appear he's removing different eggs from her mouth. the whole movie was practically a shot-by-shot remake of the 1957 low budget disaster film "zero hour." with jokes and sight gags added. the directors bought the rights to "zero hour" to keep from being sued.
FYI the dance scene originally came from "Saturday night fever. This movie launched Leslie Nielson's comedy career you definitely have to watch the naked gun series with Leslie. Imo,I prefer when reactors go in completely blind. This movie is funny even if you don't know any of the other films it referenced I only knew one. Great reaction keep up the good work ✌️.
This was back when PG actually meant that parental guidance was needed. I still remember talking about how movies have changed with my sister's fiancé. He understood Jaws being PG, but he could not believe that this film was as well.
the jive talk lady was played by Barbara Billingsley ( June Cleaver from the tv show Leave It To Beaver)
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?"
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable.
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Julie Hagerty.
Celebrity Pilot Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch.
Better Living Through Chemistry Fact: At one point, a woman (Nora Meerbaum) refuses alcohol in favor of sniffing cocaine. Although seemingly righteous and indigent at being offered alcohol, she is correct in refusing a depressant (whiskey) if she was going to take a stimulant (cocaine).
White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life.
Casting Notes Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
Bridges during filming also became frustrated because he did not understand the humor and what exactly was going on. Robert Stack told him "They just want us to be us" and he got it.
“Do you want me to check the weather, Clarence?”
“No. Why don’t you take care of it.”
lol
I never caught that one!!
I'm 61 years old, and I watched this movie when it was out in theaters. I've probably watched this one about 500 times. 😅😅😅😅
An amazing movie. Yes, there are a HUGE number of things people now just miss...like the cameos of JJ Walker and Ethyl Merman, and Jarvis (in the taxi), like the Folgers commercial (same woman who did the commercial parodying the lines here), etc. etc. etc. Some reactors don't even get that that is really Kareem Abdul Jabar playing Kareem pretending to be Murdoch. But despite the fact half the jokes are dated, it still makes people laugh.
The plot of the movie is mainly based on, and spoofing a really old move called Zero Hour! But there was also a movie called Airport in the 70s that had 2 sequels that I think also inspired some of this.
The beach scene was a spoof of a scene from a really old movie called From Here to Eternity.
The dance scene was a spoof of the John Travolta movie, Saturday Night Fever.
The guy who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by the real Ethel Merman. She was a very famous Broadway star (the song she sang in that scene was from the Broadway musical, Gypsy that she also starred in), but she's also famous for doing a few movies.
The nun with the guitar was a spoof of several singing nun movies from the 60s which were in turn inspired by an actual singing nun who recorded a song in France.
The woman who kept thinking, "Jim never does that at home" was a spoof of a coffee commercial from that time where they would switch the coffee served in fancy restaurants with instant coffee and the wife was always shocked that her husband loved their coffee more than hers.
The horse in the bed was probably partly what you thought, but mainly it was a spoof of a scene from the Godfather when a rival gang member puts a decapitated horse's head in another character's bed as a warning.
I think the line, "That's just what they'd be expecting" was just a spoof of many old war movies where the hero would say that about the enemy.
Same with the random spear thrown in the background; that was a spoof of a lot of old jungle movies where that would happen.
That's all I can think of.
All of those observations would not be noticed by anyone born in the 90's and later. Just not part of their culture or our culture today. Those are all examples reflecting 60s and 70s pop culture. For clarity, I read in an article years ago that the actual horse in bed scene was not a spoof of the Godfather but an inside joke that Mrs. Over is cheating on her husband with a horse.
Well, sure, that was clearly what was
happening, she was cheating on her
husband with a horse, and the absurdity of
that made it funny even for those who didn't get the Godfather reference. For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, there were only 4 networks, and all the UHF channels showed old movies (for free) so there was a greater likelihood that most of us would have seen all the classic movies as well as all the commercials and top TV shows, so we had more of a shaired culture so we got most of the references. Now with streaming TV and thousands of cable channels, there's no guarantee anyone will get any references anymore@@dunhill1
The movie was a take-off on the airplane crash movie genre in the 70's, but more specifically a scene by scene parody of the movie "Zero Hour" which was much older. There were also timely jokes about commercials of the day (Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home) and (Leon's getting larger). And the dance sequence was from Saturday Night Fever, which is worth watching, but only one scene is related to this movie. Other than zero hour, which probably isn't worth your time, there is nothing else specific you should watch in order to get more of this. Although you should know that really was Ethel Merman, a Broadway star of the 40's-60's.
Rumor has it that this movie was the reason the FAA required the Pilot and CoPilot to have have different dishes to avoid both of them falling ill.
yes that's true
Leslie Nielsen's second movie was a Science Fiction Classic called Forbidden Planet. He was the young Captain that leads a group of space travelers to an unusual planet with a very unusual "monster." It's a serious film although there are some funny scenes. It introduced Robbie the Robot who ended up being the robot on the old Lost in Space television show in the 60's. For it's time it was a very well done science fiction movie. (Have to admit it was one of my husband's favorite sci-fi movies.) You don't necessarily need to watch this for your channel but you may be interested in watching it to see Leslie Nielsen in a serious role but you might find the mystery of the "monster" to be interesting.
they stopped visits to the cock pit I think even years before 911. security protocols and airline regulations have changed so much from the 70s that I'm stoked when younger people catch the jokes...
it took me twenty years but I finally got the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home"
its an old coffee commercial. where the wife (same actress) is at a party with her husband. he's offered a second cup of coffee where he accepts prompting that thought from her. turns out he only ever had one cup of coffee at home because the coffee she made wasn't that great and he was being polite.
I think the dancing scene came from Saterday Night Fever.
"Airplane!" isn't just the top comedy of the time period that it came out in, it has been on top of best comedy lists ever since. Sure, some jokes are dated but so many of the gags don't require knowledge of the references because they are so surprising and outlandish. I think this film is pretty damn timeless. A bona fide classic.
I highly recommend watching "Top Secret!" - it's made by the same directors and is their hidden gem IMO. Val Kilmer's first big movie role, and he kills it. The jokes are just as unexpected and "smart dumb" as in this film, but some of them are even more absurd. It's so so good.
The "No, that's just they'll be expecting us to do" was used several times by this same actor when he starred in a show called The Untouchables which is from the '60s
You should check out Top Secret! that came from the same folks that did this one.. If you think this is random you haven't seen anything yet.
12:50 The lady thinking her husband "never has a second cup of coffee at home" is from a famous series of coffee commercials in the 70s! I love your reaction to this film...same as mine the first time I saw it.
I didn’t know about the commercials. I just thought it was an overly paranoid wife which is just as funny
@@Captainaceguy00 YES either way it works! The paranoid coffee wife commercials were pretty common in the 70s.
I love that the copilot was Kareem Abdul Jabar. He keeps denying that he is a world-famous basketball player. Also, the guy who keeps pouring liquid on his face instead of in his mouth, is demonstrating what he called his "drinking problem".
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," was the tag line from a commercial for Yuban coffee that ran a LOT in the 1970s.
Robert Stack "Captain Rex Kramer" was the host of "Unsolved Mysteries" during the 1980's and 1990's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a huge star in the NBA around the time this was made.
I love you saying "that's a fair response" after the pterodactyl moment lol
the disco scene with the song Stayin Alive is in reference to the film Saturday Night Fever
In the 80s you couldn’t walk through any airport without having at least 3 groups of those people handing out scripture pamphlets and little fake flowers! As a little girl I actually loved getting the flowers and I ended up with a huge collection of them! The groups I mostly remember was the church of the Latter Day Saints and the jehovah witness
The horse in the bed meant she had a stud while her husband was gone.
There is no way in the world they would allow anyone to make this movie today, NO WAY! I’m not gonna lie, I miss this time, all the off the wall jokes. They weren’t trying to be mean towards anyone. The humor was so much more “free”. I’m not saying no one was offended, but not like now. There was no one expressing how offended they were, threatening cancellation of anyone. This is a totally different world we live in now. Sometimes I wish I could go back. Oh well, life goes on! 🤷🏾♂️
BS. They said that about Blazing Saddles for decades, then they made Tropic Thunder. There have always been offended people, and always been comedians pushing the envelope. Life of Brian had people so offended they actually banned it in some places, and that came out around the same time as Airplane!
Such a dumb response
13:06 - the woman producing eggs out of her mouth....a pretty common sleight of hand trick. She actually only has the one egg in her mouth. When he takes the egg out of her mouth, he actually already has a new egg hidden in his hand and she just keeps the same egg in her mouth. Then he grabs a new egg which he hides in his hand and the whole process repeats.
the horse in the bed thing is a Godfather reference. In the movie, the mob puts the head of a horse in some guy's bed to scare him, but in Airplane! They made the joke so that it's not only a horse head, but the whole horse who was ... well you got the rest
Yes, one of the most iconic scenes in that recent blockbuster movie that shocked audiences at the time.
Or simply that she's cheating on her husband with a stud.. :p
This film succeeds by the actor playing it straight while the jokes occur in the background.
To fully get every pop culture joke you have to have been alive in the late 70s/early 80s in the US.
The scene in Ted was a parody of this dance scene but this dance scene was a parody of Saturday night fever! This was the funniest thing ever when I was a kid! You should definitely do the naked gun! Deadpan humor at its finest!!
22:10 "Was this the greatest parody movie of this time period?" The was the GREATEST PARODY MOVIE TO THIS POINT IN HISTORY. All other parody movies after this one are based upon 90% of this movie's DNA. This is the Seminal Modern Parody movie.
24:45 This is a parody of the Knute Rockney All American speech. The speech was a real event, but what people remember it from mainly is the Ronald Reagan movie: ua-cam.com/video/_e7rmpjBSR8/v-deo.html This movie scene is presented as the historical background for the historically stirring locker room speech that evoked the unforgettable phrase: Win One for the Gipper.
This phrase became a campaign slogan for Ronald Reagan for his reelection (a high point in US politics, in my humble opinion).
Whatever you were thinking about what the horse in bed meant......we have a winner!
The "Jim never has a second cup at home" bit was from a coffee commercial.
And I might be wrong, but I believe it was the same actress.
@@Clell65619 you're right. I forgot about that. 👍
The brand was Yuban and the ad can be found on YT. According to the actress it was just a coincidence that she was the one from the commercial
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a TV commercial at the time.
The Stayin Alive dance scene is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The song is from that Travolta film.
My spoof recommendations, pretty much the ZAZ guys, who made this: Kentucky Fried Movie (especially the second half), Police Squad, Top Secret, Naked Gun, Hot Shots Part Deux and then Walk Hard (not a ZAZ movie, but excellent).
The dance scene was "Saturday Night Fever" made just years before this movie.
This was during an awesome time when people could make movies like this because comedy was comedy and people didn’t take every damn thing seriously
The slapstick over-the-top comedy of this era is timeless. There’s so many subtle and clever joke’s happening so quickly. It makes it great to rewatch and catch some of the jokes you missed the first time watching
The Naked Gun series with Leslie Nielsen is by this same team. Same type of comedy presentation.
This is the Godfather of spoof movies.
This movie was legendary. June Cleaver speaking jive - that one kills me even to this day. I am serious and don’t call me Shirley….I still say that. I still laugh when I see it after 40 years! So many double entendres, it was quite genius for the time.
"Go out there and give just one for zipper" is a speech done in a 1940s film All American: by Knute Rockne. Another place this speech is used, is the movie RUDY ( as both are central around Notre Dame Fighting Irish) they just used it as a generic heart felt motivational speech in Airplane. but its reference to All American.
The white lady who translated the jive was Barbara Billingsley, the Mom from the 1950s sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." That show was kind of considered very white bread, that's why Barbara delivering those lines was so funny!
Leave it to Beaver is a great show! Lots of fun, lite 50s comedy. Very charming, funny, and relaxing.
After some research, only Peacock Premium has Leave It To Beaver. I doubt our gracious reactor is going to subscribe and watch an old outdated, unrelatable, sitcom when he has so much on his plate. For this generation, Leave It To Beaver is boring and they can't even relate to the antiquated technology and vernacular used. Just not going to happen. And having to explain it doesn't make the gag any funnier.
"Why do you insist on drinking like that, bruh?" Because he has a drinking problem.
Blazing Saddles is a great movie. 95% of Mel Brooks movies are fantastic
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I recommend you react to :
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Directed by *Edgar Wright* (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World/Shaun of the Dead)
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The contemporary references in this movie are not nearly as specific as you think. It's a general spoof of disaster movies (many of which have been roasted by MST3K) and TV shows that were a major fad in the 1970s. "Airplane!" is a play on the title "Airport," which I think was a brief series in the mid-70s.
The disco scene - although the "Disco Sucks" era had begun, "Saturday Night Fever" had left its huge mark on pop culture.
Oh, yeah, that really is Ethel Merman - a singer who entertained enlistees in WW2.
The copilot is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. I remember watching his retirement honors in 1989 while we were on vacation in Kiawaii Island - just before his team lost the Finals to the Pistons.
"I haven't felt this sick since we saw that Ronald Reagan film." Former Hollywood star Ronald Reagan was a presidential candidate at the time of production. His nickname was The Gipper when he was young and I guess he coined the phrase, "Win one for the Gipper" during WW2.
Just found your channel...great reaction! I think it's a testament to this film that it still holds up despite some dated jokes. The real joke for many of us was watching these actors we grew up with in serious roles totally spoofing themselves.
One of the gags that is usually missed is that they are flying a jet, but throughout the movie, the sound you hear is from a prop plane. This is a throwback to the original source movie, “Zero Hour”.
16:53 - the reason they said that in sync was because he said "It's an entirely different kind of flying, alltogether". Back in the day when someone ends a sentence with "alltogether" it was meant to say or sing something in unison. Even though that's clearly not what Ted meant. You have to remember a lot of these jokes were puns based on 1970's slang and expressions.
An hour and a half of the greatest dad jokes ever shown on camera
after seeing it atleast 5 times and not noticing how the sound of the engine is a propellor😂
One part of the movie almost nobody gets is the one where Ted decides he will land the plane and you can hear the audience cheering and clapping. My dad told me that back in the 40s and 50s there was this type of generic movie where there was a hero that past the first half of the movie would feel beaten and defeated and would give up. Then, close to the end, he would re-gain self-confidence somehow and would decide he would face the villain. At that point, audiences from back then would cheer and clap for real in the theater.
The dancing in this as a reference from Saturday night fever and the dance scene in Ted is a reference to this one in airplane.
The watermelon had nothing to do with race...
The joke about he never has a second coffee at home was a commercial in the 70s for Folgers. It’s the same setup.
This Movie is parodying making fun of *(Saturday night fever)* starring *John Travolta. (Ted)* is parodying this movie
23:47 - That's one of my favorite jokes in the entire movie . . . "retroactive irony" 🤣
This parodies the airport disaster movies of the 70’s. There was always a nun with a guitar, a sick kid, or incapacitated pilots.
Fun Fact: the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” was actually a commercial back in the day!
(My dad told me this, he grew up in the 80’s) P.S. You should watch the Naked Gun movies, they star Leslie Nielsen!
In hindsight, watching The Big Lebowski's dad playing a major drug addict is unintentionally hilarious
FYI: Bar scene from "Saturday Night Fever". Ted's "drinking problem" was that he missed his mouth. Second coffee was a coffee commercial with the same actress who asked her friend what brand her husband had liked better than hers. Pep talk was a reference to Knute Rockne movie from 1940 inspiring Notre Dame with "Win one for the Gipper" (Starring Ronald Reagan ----- Republican candidate for President that year). Johnny was a gay caricature. Light reading = Great Jewish sports legends ----an old joke because there aren't many. Other scenes were from "Airport" --- a series of more serious movies during the 70s. Most of the main characters were serious actors who later branched out into more comedy (Leslie Nielson, Lloyd Bridges) after this movie. 26 was entering the high side for women getting married back then. Leslie Neilson died about a dozen years ago.
I love watching these reactions because your faces when you catch the joke are so entertaining. I love it.
the bit about he never has a second cup of coffee at home is from a coffee commercial in the 80's